The Other Unfinished Rail Line at Punggol - SGLRH Extras 

As a northerner myself who frequently travels towards Tampines and Changi, I am so grateful you made a video about this! I have always thought the CRL Punggol Extension would serve as a perfect opportunity to connect Yishun with Punggol and Changi, and replace the incredibly congested and packed 858 and 969 buses. Anyone from LTA if you're watching this, I second this! The planned ninth MRT line is not going to follow this path anyway.

We need a line like this badly. The connection between north, northeast and east is way underserved. Everyone is getting sick of dreadful 858 journeys, and Seletar Airport could be so much better if it had better connections.

this series coming back is a big W

This line would be amazing! Singapore is in dire need of a MRT line that connects the north region or outer regions of SG. Instead our MRT lines all bypass the downtown area leading to overcrowding

This series is really great especially for children’s to know more about the ‘secrets’ and ‘white elephant’ projects behind our rail network! Punggol seems like a town in Singapore with several LRT Lines that did not came to a reality today (sadly, only the East and West Loops), although the town now is pretty much developed with the Digital District / SIT campus coming up. The North-East region in Singapore does have many amenities and transport connections to get around the nation and hoping that the Cross Island Line - Punggol Extension could be extended to the Northern part of the country (somewhere at Yishun or Woodlands) one day as well!

We need a connection from the north to the northeastern/eastern side of sg desperately. 969, 858, 39 and 85 simply aren’t enough plus the bus rides are pretty long. They should extend the line to yishun at least. It would cut travel time from around 1 hour + to simply 15-30 minutes

Would be great for reducing some of that 20 lane monster near TPE Seletar

That is almost certainly the long term plan - that is why the PE branch interchanges with Pasir Ris on its own platforms and not the main CRL platforms. PE branch will likely be split off in future to merge with the North Coast/Shore Line, just like how the original three station Branch Line merged with the North South Line, and the Changi Airport Branch is merging with the Thomson-East Coast Line.

The 9th line’s alignment isn’t finalised as far as I know, think the one shown in the straits times was just a possibility. Anything is at this point… but such an alignment would be a blessing.

going to Tampines every day from the North, a line like this would be so helpful

honestly, it would be better to have terminal 5 to punggol continue on to woodlands as the north shore line while cross island line would start at pasir ris instead. this would also make seletar and changi airport on the same line which would be convenient if they ever move other smaller flights to seletar

If they do extend the line, I'm hoping they also add a stop at Seletar Airport, and maybe even go further west to somewhere like the Singapore zoo (if there's enough demand for that)

Potentially the CRL Punggol Extension may be extended further

Awesome video - succinct but packed with fascinating information. Really cool they're using the box at Punggol. I agree extending CRL to the North would be excellent (not that it would benefit me much here in Queenstown) Please make more videos!!

Sydney Australia near my area in AUS, we have a North shore line in service

lets go En G Post back at mrt content once more🎉🎉🎉😝

have you seen the 2001 MRT concept map? sheds quite a bit of light on what could have been my suspicion is since CPE won’t be extended to Yishun until Seletar gets more development? or when they start developing Simpang (same like JRL coming up with Tengah). there’s also the fabled 9th MRT line that runs north-south from Seletar thru Kallang that might happen some day we never know. as for station boxes I know there’s like a old 2010 rumour about Changi Airport having a station box as well, which could have been used for TEL but it seems they’re full sending the absorbing of the branch line

They should extend CRL to Yishun because more people

I think is CRL and SLL from Woodlands North to Greater Southern Waterfront

When the develop Simpang, they will extend accordingly. But Seletar, now being from that camp, they will never remove it.

They seriously need to consider building the North Coast line or whatever its called. Or at the very least, extend CRLe towards Yishun or Woodlands. Takes ages to travel from Yishun to Pasir Ris.

Not likely I guess afterall they expect you to change at AMK for CRL

welcome back

TBH if the planned line were real, we'd have gotten an Ubin-Tekong EWL extension which were on the books until protest by environmentalists

if it is open...i would not have taken the slow 969 from woodlands int to tampines int hahaha soo slow....but at the same time can sleep for abit haha

Finally

I think we need to differentiate between the "LRT" we have in Singapore and proper LRT systems. The manufacturer of the LRT systems in Singapore classify them as "people movers" and not LRT systems. Proper LRT systems definitely can have a place in Singapore

Early!!